Deep inelastic scattering and "elastic" diffraction

M. Kuroda, D. Schildknecht

We examine the total cross section of virtual photons on protons, ${\sigma }_{{\gamma }^{\ast }p}(W^2,Q^2)$, at low $x\cong Q^2/W^2\ll 1$ and its connection with ``elastic'' diffractive production $γ…